The stories contain no sugarcoating and are frequently grim in theme, and yet here and there one encounters the stubborn persistence of humanity’s best qualities.

杨的故事外面没有包上糖衣，主题通常沉重残酷，但是人们在书中不时会看到最美的人性在做最顽强的坚持。

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The stories contain no sugarcoating and are frequently grim in theme, and yet here and there one encounters the stubborn persistence of humanity's best qualities.

这些故事不包含任何糖衣，并经常在主题上很严峻，而且到处都能遇到了一个人类的优秀品质——顽固的坚持。

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Beauty is no mere sentimental, idiosyncratic human affect; it is our way of describing encounters with vitality, with life-affirmative patterns and relationships.

美不是感想式的、特质的人类的感动，它是我们描述与生命相遇、伴随着肯定生命的模式与相互关系的方式。

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The only worry she had about filling her column was the one every journalist encounters: the occasional period when there are no good stories.

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There were no incidents that afternoon in mid-April, though there have been close encounters, according to company security logs.

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The result is a game that has no fixed ending but adapts to the player to constantly put fresh challenges and encounters in front of them.

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